Alessandro Stradella (1643-82) - Cantata "per la Notte del SS.mo Natale," IV: Terzetto: Oh di notte felice. Performed by Cristina Miatello, soprano, Caterina Calvi, contralto, Roberto Abbondanza, bass, and Enrico Casazza/La Magnifica Comunità on period instruments.
When we say the word “rare”, we are certainly not referring to this car which, in fact, is unique.
It is a one-off commissioned in 1950 to Stabilimenti Farina, the same ones who, together with Vignale (the latter in the last period), built the Cisitalia 202: the resemblance is there and it can be clearly seen (also with some very early Ferrari), but it does not detract from the charm of this car…
(Basso WIP) I never quite developed a coloring style for Procreate, so it’s been a slow and steady grind of coloring and smudging and trying out brushes that have been sitting in my folders for a year at least shdhd
À vos côtés/Tonari ni, a one-shot from 2019 by basso.
I love her arstyle so much! The love of drawing older men she has shines through as usual. It's the story of a young worker with a passion for photographying racing horses, who falls in love with an older salaryman who looks like he's getting bullied at work. They start interacting through meeting repeatedly in trains stations.
Very charming, with lots of lovely, vivid little scenes. The relationship between the two leads is absolutely charming and the secondary characters also feel very alive.
The Night Beyond the Tricorned Window, volume 5, by Tomoko Yamashita.
I've enjoyed the supernatural creepiness of the various cases a lot and this volume isn't lacking in that! There are some really good scenes for the main recurring characters and I was especially interested in the Hiyakawa-related flashback, which digs into the reasons for why he's so fucked-up and acts the way he does.
It was also nice to get a bit more insight, through one comment of Mukae, on why Mikado hungs up with Hiyakawa despite the shit he pulls. I had more or less inferred it but somehow it didn't feel verbalized enough to me by the story before that? Maybe I'd feel differently with a reread but I wondered at times if the character acted like he did just for the sake of pushing the plot forwards.
Very curious to see how the story will evolve in the second half!
Me: working on several mlb animatics based on several lovecraftian horror and tragic takes on the reality of the universe because although I am 20 I never left my brooding phase
Also me: thief series go brrrrrrr subtextual father-mentor/child(sibling)-apprentice relationships go brrrrrrrrrrrr the city is alive go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
In the background: joking genshinsona spawned from a friend's character design practice rapidly gaining wade wilson sentience